{"id":26963,"date":"2020-06-30T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=26963"},"modified":"2020-06-30T08:01:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T12:01:08","slug":"econn-motorsports-and-thompson-speedway-motorsports-park-announce-2020-oval-track-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2020\/06\/econn-motorsports-and-thompson-speedway-motorsports-park-announce-2020-oval-track-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Econn Motorsports and Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park Announce 2020 Oval Track Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Econn Motorsports and Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park Announce 2020 Oval Track Plans<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"283\" src=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ThompsonSpeedway-1024x283.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ThompsonSpeedway-1024x283.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ThompsonSpeedway-300x83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ThompsonSpeedway-768x212.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ThompsonSpeedway-1080x299.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ThompsonSpeedway.jpg 1657w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Econn Motorsports and Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park announced today an agreement that will enable oval track racing to continue on the famed 5\/8<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;mile at Thompson CT. A tentative 2020 schedule has been developed with the first event being an open practice on Wednesday July 8<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plans currently call for Econn Motorsports to also host an open practice on Wednesday August 5<sup>th<\/sup>. Racing is set to resume with the Bud 150 on Wednesday August 19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;and the Sunoco World Series on October 9-11. The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour is expected to headline both race dates. The parties are exploring the possibility of additional race meets during 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Econn Motorsports is a newly formed race promotion and consulting firm headed by Terry Eames, former General Manager of Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park. \u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic put oval track racing at Thompson in 2020 at risk. We are proud to announce that the Hoenig family and Econn have found a way for oval track racing to continue during the track\u2019s 80<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;year and beyond\u201d, Eames said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Specific details of next week\u2019s practice will be available over the next several days at EconnMotorsports.com. Tickets will only be available online and in advance in keeping with the policies set forth by the State of Connecticut designed to limit the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Econn Motorsports and Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park Announce 2020 Oval Track Plans Econn Motorsports and Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park announced today an agreement that will enable oval track racing to continue on the famed 5\/8th&nbsp;mile at Thompson CT. A tentative 2020 schedule has been developed with the first event being an open practice on Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26964,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}